bout de papier, Volume 7, Issue No. 3, 1990
Paris Then and Now
it did more than 50 years ago. Since the construction of the Tour Montparnasse, which aroused an outcry at the time, nothing much has altered the central skyline. Neither the Pompidou Centre nor the pyramid at the Louvre rise above it and…
Letter to the Editor
I refer to the John Watkins letter to John Holmes that was published in your Vol. 23, No. 3, where you indicate that there was an addition on the left margin referring to a lunch “at the Gardens (Gordons?).” I am not…
From One “Fantaisiste” to Another
John Benjamin Clark Watkins was born in Norval Station, Ontario, in 1902. He had specialized in Scandinavian studies at the University of Toronto and at Cornell University, from which he received his doctorate in 1944 (after working for more than a decade…
Words Not Deeds
Nearly a decade after the “war to end all wars” statesmen gathered in Paris to sign the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, more commonly known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact in honour of its principal sponsors, American Secretary of State Frank…
Cockroaches and Caviar
by Mary Taylor
Émile Martel
Notre collègue Émile Martel, actuellement Ministre responsable des Affaires culturelles à Paris, est aussi poète et vient de se mériter le Prix du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie poésie de langue française pour Pour orchestre et poète seul, publié aux Écrits des…
